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  • Dividing Lines: Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction

    Dividing Lines: Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction University of Michigan Press 2013 232 pages 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-472-11861-8 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-472-02890-0 Andreá N. Williams, Associate Professor of English Ohio State University Photograph of John and Lugenia Burns Hope and family, undated, Atlanta University Photographs—Individuals, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library (Pictured…

  • Spectacular Wickedness: Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans

    In “Spectacular Wickedness,” Emily Epstein Landau examines the social history of this famed district within the cultural context of developing racial, sexual, and gender ideologies and practices.

  • Mingling of Races Becoming Too Common

    Mingling of Races Becoming Too Common Stark County Democrat 1902-02-18 (Weekly Edition) page 3, columns 4-5 Source: Library of Congress: Chronicling America Staff Correspondent Ohio Legislator Will Introduce a New Law Against Miscegenation–More Canal Legislation Is Proposed Columbus. Feb. 17.—A bill which will prevent miscegenation will shortly be introduced in the legislature by Representative Denune,…

  • Native American Roots in Black America Run Deep

    Native American Roots in Black America Run Deep Indian Voices 2013-02-04 David A. Love Do you have Indian in your family? That’s a common question asked in the black community. Many African- Americans lay claim to Native American ancestry, and yet very few blacks have taken the steps to research this part of the history,…

  • The Color Question Like Banquo’s Ghost

    The Color Question Like Banquo’s Ghost The Indianapolis Recorder: A Weekly Newspaper Devoted the to Best Interest of the Negroes Saturday, 1910-05-07 page 1, column 3 Source: Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis: University Library: Program of Digital Scholarship There Is Virtue In Being a Full Blood Negro—Louisiana Supreme Court Makes Important Ruling. According to a decision…

  • John C. Minkins on Race Purity

    A large and representative audience was present at the recent meeting of the Boston Literary and Historical association to hear an address by John C. Minkins, editor of the Providence (R. I.) Evening News, on miscegenation and the fight for race purity.

  • CNN Joins Forces with Soledad O’Brien’s New Production Company

    CNN Joins Forces with Soledad O’Brien’s New Production Company Cable News Network (CNN) 2012-02-21 Starfish Media Group Will Produce Specials and Documentaries for CNN   CNN is entering into a production and distribution agreement with critically-acclaimed journalist Soledad O’Brien, whose new production company will produce long-form programming specials for the network it was announced today…

  • The Stigma of Privilege: Racial Identity and Stigma Consciousness Among Biracial Individuals

    The Stigma of Privilege: Racial Identity and Stigma Consciousness Among Biracial Individuals Race and Social Problems Volume 5, Issue 1 (March 2013) pages 41-56 DOI: 10.1007/s12552-012-9083-5 Leigh S. Wilton Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Diana T. Sanchez, Associate Professor of Psychology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Julie A. Garcia, Associate Professor…

  • Colorism and School-to-Work and School-to-College Transitions of African American Adolescents

    Colorism and School-to-Work and School-to-College Transitions of African American Adolescents Race and Social Problems Volume 5, Issue 1 (March 2013) pages 15-27 DOI: 10.1007/s12552-012-9081-7 Igor Ryabov, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, Texas Using multinomial logistic modeling, the current study estimated the impact of skin tone on school-to-work and school-to-college transitions of…

  • Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880–1920

    Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880–1920 University of Arkansas Press 2000 464 pages 64 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55728-593-5 | 1-55728-593-4 Willard B. Gatewood, Alumni Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus University of Arkansas, Fayetteville This monumental work is a classic study of the black “aristocracy” which developed in the United States in the years following…